HEALTHY THINKING

PRINCIPLES OF SUCCESS Series 26

HEALTHY THINKING

You are what your thinking has made of you. And you cannot rise above your thinking. As you can think your way to success and happiness, so you can think your way to failure and unhappiness. Your mental attitudes can make or break your life.

You can think positive thoughts or negative thoughts. Positive thought about people, events and situations is vital to attracting success in life. On the other hand, negative thought about people, events and situations attracts negative outcomes. Thoughts attract forces that work together to make the thoughts a reality. So, you tend to realize what your mind thinks about all day.

Positive thinking empowers. It supplies strength to achieve the seeming impossible. Positive mental attitude makes life meaningful. It attracts and accelerates forces which work together for positive outcomes. Negative thinking drains one’s energy and makes the person weak. It attracts forces of discouragement and despondency. A negative thinker easily loses hope. He hardly sees possibility in an idea. Obstacles halt his progress and he gives up. A positive thinker sees possibility in every idea. He always sees the bright side of life. The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is in their thinking.

There’s an awful way in which what we think become a reality. Therefore, fill your mind with thoughts of faith, love and goodness, and those qualities will follow you. If you think evil, fear, hatred, failures, then you are inviting trouble. If you entertain thoughts of impossibility, you’ll be defeated. But if you deliberately fill your mind with possibility thinking, you’ll meet challenges and overcome difficulties.

The condition of the mind – whether negative or positive – affects proper functioning of the body systems. Experts have discovered that a mind filled with negative thinking causes emotional disorder and endangers the body systems. Various killer diseases have been connected with negative thinking. Experts say resentment, hate, grudge, ill-will and jealousy – attitudes which come from a negative mind – produce ill health. Fear, that is fear of things that might happen, is especially a dangerous mental attitude. Fear impacts the mind, brain and heart negatively, and its damaging effects can be seen in the cells, tissues and organs of the body. Fear is a major cause of hypertension.

Anger and unforgiveness are two other mental attitudes that have damaging effects on the body systems. So, psychiatrists advocate that we forgive if we must be mentally healthy. They say you need extra energy to maintain anger and hatred than you need to establish peace, love and forgiveness. The excess energy of anger and hate pours in other directions to cause mental illness, hypertension, ulcer, constipation and so forth.

The Romans say, “A sound mind is a sound body.” When your mind is free of damaging thoughts and emotions, your body will be healthy. When you fill your mind with qualities of faith, goodwill, hope, faith and possibility, you attract forces that will help you actualize those qualities in your life. If you have been offended, please forgive, because by forgiving you preserve your physical, mental and social well being.